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June 21st

By Ben Abraham ⋅ June 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Welcome to This Week In Videogame Blogging, where I try to round up the best blog posts from the critical gaming blogosphere.
This week, Rob Lefevre’s reflective post about why he runs a gaming website caught my eye. Because of the decision by his managing partner to leave the Games Are Evil website, Lefevre has been [...]

June 14th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ June 14, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Time to play catch-up – what posts did I inevitably miss reading last week? First, this piece on Left 4 Dead (the first) from Gregory Weir’s Game, Set, Watch column ‘The Interactive Palette‘. He says that “by creating enemies that can combine their abilities to become even more powerful, Valve significantly increased the complexity of [...]

June 7th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ June 7, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

Is it really that time of the week again already? I don’t think I’ll ever get used to the whole “passage of time” thing – surely it’s some sort of crazy conspiracy…
Much like this week’s announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 by Valve – which is apparently a crazy conspiracy to charge money for a [...]

May 31st

By Ben Abraham ⋅ May 31, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

This week in videogame blogging we cruise through some videogame music, take a look back at an overlooked classic, pick up a couple of excellent pieces we missed from last week and a Chick gets stood up by Sony. Onwards and upwards!
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised any more when videogame publishers do something like [...]

May 24th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ May 24, 2009 ⋅ 6 comments

This Week in Videogame Blogging: Hard-Casual reveals exclusively that Dig Dug has uncovered the body of Jimmy Hoffa!
Now that that’s out of my system; Once more unto the breach, dear friends.
For my fellow Australian readers, David Wildgoose turfs up another thoughtful commentary on the “plunder down under” that is targeting us players of electronic videogames. Actually, that’s [...]

May 17th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ May 16, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

A short ‘n’ sweet one for This Week in Videogame Blogging. Not because no-one wrote anything good but because I didn’t keep my usual close tabs on the regular blogs I read. C’est la vie! As always, TWIVGB makes no claims to comprehensiveness, only quality.
This week saw N’Gai Croal return to his Edge column with [...]

May 10th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ May 11, 2009 ⋅ 5 comments

Welcome! Welcome! Pull up a pew – anywhere will do. Let us now pray and give thanks to The Gods of Blogging About Videogames for this bountiful harvest of tasty reading we are about to receive.
Today, we give thanks for the Polycat blog, and its excellent summary of the pros and cons of eliminating numerical [...]

May 3rd

By Ben Abraham ⋅ May 3, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Welcome to another exciting instalment of This Week In Videogame Blogging. Before we dive in, I should probably explain how I go about compiling this list of the best stuff from around the blogosphere from the week. It goes something like this:
I have a Word document. When I read something on a blog that I [...]

April 26th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ April 26, 2009 ⋅ 10 comments

This Week in Videogame Blogging, 65 die in a tragic Tetris accident in NYC, and Hard-casual also get the scoop on the Fallout: New Vegas protagonist!
In slightly less tongue-in-cheek happenings, Jim Rossignol, one quarter of Rock, Paper, Shotgun, noted that “Locked Door” was close to the biggest article ever published on RPS. It’s certainly well [...]

April 19th

By Ben Abraham ⋅ April 19, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Welcome to the first week of This Week in Videogame Blogging for Critical Distance – for the week to 19th April, 2009. Let’s get into it.
This week the gents from Eegra wrote a critique of the body of work of a certain game journalist and his propensity for overusing food metaphors in reviews. ‘Who is [...]

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